Quotes About Writing

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.

Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost a writer.

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.

You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad.

The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there's a fear that you've forgotten how to do it.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

When you have to write a letter, you're automatically put into a state of composure and a kind of formality. You can't help it. So, no, I never once got a letter where someone just popped off at me.

BoJack' is a very much a format-based show. The story should always match the format, but I don't necessarily think the story has to come first.

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.